CAN: The Documentary (1999)

Director: Hannes Rossacher

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

Cast

Holger Czukay

Jaki Liebezeit

Michael Karoli

Malcolm Mooney

Kris Needs

Shirley Karoli

Irmin Schmidt